Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Iran Roosevelt noted , that the economic blockade was losing Mossadeq his support , both among the mullahs and among the merchants in the bazaar , Indeed , his erratic and increasingly dogmatic responses to the crisis meant that even some of his own National Front supporters were defecting form him . |
| 2 | The two of them leaned closer , across the table , and Tug found himself leaning forward too , as though he were helping to make their plan . |
| 3 | It was easy for them to feel that they were struggling to restrain their ally from some madcap act . |
| 4 | The Collector and Hookum Singh had their backs to this wall of flesh , with bayonets sprouting from between their legs and under their armpits ; they were shoving and shoving , and they in turn were being shoved by the other Sikhs , who were struggling to keep them in place . |
| 5 | Nevertheless we were very glad to have someone to talk to in the long reaches of the night when we were struggling to keep our eyes open . |
| 6 | The institutional , legal and procedural definition of convocation had not been clear in 1307 nor was it finally resolved by 1327 : the clergy were struggling to free themselves from the enveloping quicksand of parliament , the king 's high court , and to reach the firm ground of an autonomous clerical assembly , no part of the king 's court ( with all that that implied ) and free from the intimidating presence , or intrusion , of those royal councillors who were laymen . |
| 7 | It already had a well-developed product on the market , whilst its rivals were struggling to get one onto the drawing board . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ People were queueing to sign it . |
| 9 | It was a pity Wallace got injured when he did as I thought they were begining to hit it off together . |
| 10 | They were dying to see something go wrong , you know , they were good old sorts , some of them were odd ones , but a good lot . |
| 11 | In the early 1480s there are some indications that English seamen were seeking to extend their activities . |
| 12 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 13 | In supporting the king 's right to Aquitaine , the nobility were seeking to maintain his honour and his inheritance , but they had no personal interests there to safeguard . |
| 14 | In Exeter the wool staplers moved quickly in 1787 to imprison some striking wool sorters who were seeking to advance their wages , but at several other times since the statute they employed had been enacted in 1726 , they had conceded advances sought by their journeymen . |
| 15 | Colombo radio reported on Oct. 17 that the LTTE had recently been admitting , at public meetings in its remaining Jaffna stronghold , that the organization was disintegrating , foreign funds were drying up after the recent military reverses , and Tamil youths were refusing to join its guerrillas . |
| 16 | Borrowers were refusing to confirm their indebtedness , unauthorised drawings had taken place and other loans were looking suspicious . |
| 17 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 18 | While a lunatic fringe was organising a new party , leading conservatives such as Karoly Grosz , the outgoing General Secretary , and Janos Berecz , the former ideologist , were refusing to reveal their intentions . |
| 19 | Erm it was the way they sort of checked all the way round the car park as if they were looking to see which would be the best . |
| 20 | It 's almost as if they were looking to make themselves the most hated and hunted men on earth . ’ |
| 21 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 22 | Is this what you were wanting to see me about , Dr Darnell ? , |
| 23 | It was as if time had lost all meaning , as if even that were conspiring to hasten him to this place where he would spend the rest of his life . |
| 24 | Thirdly , something James could not know when the season began , 1976 was going to be one of the most contentious seasons , politically and administratively , that I have ever known in the sport , and there were several times in the year when it really looked as though the fates were conspiring to make it impossible for Hunt to win . |
| 25 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 26 | IN A FINAL in which both sides were attempting to exploit their opponents ' mistakes , David Smith 's Perth team regained the Bell 's Scottish Championship at Kirkcaldy yesterday , defeating the holders , Hammy McMillan 's Stranraer , by 5-3 . |
| 27 | It could equally be that they had spotted my men following them and were attempting to shake them off . ’ |
| 28 | Furthermore , the fact that the exhibition was organized to show the successive stages through which Cubism had passed indicates that the painters were attempting to make their work as comprehensible as possible to the public , and their purpose must have been further served by the demonstration of the affinities between Cubism and the more readily understandable paintings of other artists who shared only a few of their pictorial concerns . |
| 29 | But they insisted Charles and Diana were attempting to overcome their problems . |
| 30 | The police account was that Garcia was shot while struggling with officers who were attempting to disarm him . |